Re: CHAT: OFF: RANT: OFFENSIVE: TAN: CHAT: Re: Ebonic Christmas

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:14:22 -0500, Paul Bennett <paulnkathy@...>
wrote:

>Goshtarnit, people, GET A GRIP.  Ok, so the poem that this
>argument is about wasn't actually that funny to me, but I'll defend
>until death the right of *somebody* to find it funny.
Calm down, no one's denying anyone's rights here.

The last I checked, this mailing list was supposed to be about constructed
languages. Not about bad jokes, or good jokes, or offensive jokes, or
inoffensive jokes, or any kind of humor as such (unless it's somehow
related to conlanging). There are places for that sort of thing, for those
who want to read them, and this isn't one of those places.

I don't mind the occasional off-topic post, but when they start to dominate
the discussion, I begin to lose patience. I would ordinarily have just
ignored it and gone on, even though I thought it was stupid and way beyond
tasteless, but defending something like this *in a forum where it is off
topic* just doesn't make sense to me. Use stuff like this as translation
exercises to show off your conlangs if you wish, but if it's irrelevant to
conlanging, send it to rec.humor or alt.humor, or some other more
appropriate forum.

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      Thryomanes        /"If all Printers were determin'd not to print any
   (Herman Miller)     / thing till they were sure it would offend no body,
   moc.oi @ rellimh <-/  there would be very little printed." -Ben Franklin